The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-24
Farm and Stock Notes.

Farm and Stock Notes.
Tomato scions have been successfully
grated on to potato stalks but to no advan-
tage.
Don't blame the cow for kicking if you
will persist in milking when the finger nails
are long
The raisin crop in California this year
will reach 100000 boxes and the quality
will be the best.
The farmers losses through drought alone
this year have been estimated at $500 000, 600
and they will probably exceed that enor-
nous sum.
The buttermilk should be completely
worked out of the butter if it is to be kept
any length of time. The dryer the butter
the longer it will keep.
A mixture of eight pounds corn meal
three pounds linseed meal and six pounds
wheat bran with as much hay as a steer can
eat, is an excellent ration for fattening
Barb-wire fences must be quite close near
the ground to turn sheep, as they will ven
ture through where pig would be stopped
the wool being protection against injury.
The Scotch creepers are breed of fowls
of the plumage Of Plymouth Rocks, of
large size but with legs only three inches
long, which give them very compact ap-
pearance.
Pumpkins for COWS have best effect when
| fed before very cold weather, for there is
less absorption of animal heat to warm the
mass-40 or so pounds-that cow will take
into her stomach.
All young animals need room for exercise
Calves should not be too closely confined
when being fed by hand. Colts require even
| more room, as they are fond of galloping
around an Enclosure.
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| periods. The COWS would soon become ac-
customed to the regularity. They could in
that manner be taught to come up from the
pasture at certain hours.
A COW with big udder is not always an
enormous mixer, nor is a thick yellow skin
an unfailing sign of rich milk, although
these are among the indications respectively
of abundance and richness of milk.
Whenever tree is transplanted and the
roots are short and apparently insufficient,
cut back the top and the tree Tor vine) will
thrive much better than if the branches
should remain. The rooms are more i'm
portant than the portion above ground.
Evergreens can be propagated from cut
tings if given extra care for the first three
months. They require over three months
to form roots and grow slowly. The cut
tings are planted in boxes of sand and kept
warm, but should have sunlight and mode
rate moisture.
The best results from hogs are obtained
by feeding them to the highest limit and
getting greatest weight in the shortest pos
sible time, and as long as the hogs shall be
increasing rapidly in weight they should be
given all they can eat, so as to get them into
market as soon as possible.
The immediate loss of milk by not sup
plying full rations of milk-producing food
the whole of the milking season is not the
end of the misfortune. 1t affects the flow
of milk in after years and counteracts all
efforts at improving the milking capacity
of the cows and their descendants.
A farmer says that if you should want to
fatten q horse that is hide-bound give him
one tablespoonful of the following mixture
once a day in wet feed: Saltpetre three
ounces; crude anthony, one ounce sui
phur, one ounce. Pulverize and mix the
whole together Dose, tablespoonful once
day in bran mash.
Fill small walls two-thirds with water and
add sweet oil to float. on the water to within
half an inch of the top. Plunge these up
right in the ground, leaving only half an
inch standing out, near the nests or runs of
the ants. The ants will come for a sip and
go home to die. No insect can exist with
oil stopping up its spiracles or breathing
pores.
1t should be the aim to increase the yield
of the crops every year. There should be
no average yield on farm, but the farmer
must keep up the fertility so as to secure
mere When the yield increases the value
of the manure is also increased Too much
manure or fertilizer cannot be applied on
land that does not increase its yield of crops
every year.
The best thoroughbred stock is now in
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cially England, supplied us with our choicest
animals; but our enterprising stockmen
have secured the best specimens to be found.
Our Jerseys yield more butter than the cows
of the Channel Islands, our swine produce
more meat at the same age and the heaviest
heeces of wool have been sheared in this
country.